CNG 102, Lot: 1425. Estimate $500. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder. 899-924. AR Penny (24mm, 1.39 g, 3h). Circumscription cross/Horizontal-Trefoil (HT1) type (BMC ii). Wessex dies (prob. Winchester); Æthelstan, moneyer. Middle I period, circa 920-924. Small cross pattée / ÆÐELS/TΛN M–O in two lines; three crosses pattée between, trefoil above and below. CTCE 57ii; SCBI 50 (Hermitage), 207; North 649; SCBC 1087. Good VF, lightly toned, some doubling on obverse.